forest ranger

noun

: an officer charged with the patrolling and guarding of a forest

especially : one in charge of the management and protection of a portion of a public forest

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Mountain police, Europe’s equivalent of a forest ranger toting a police badge, often check a guide’s paperwork, and more than one hapless group has had its TMB trip stalled by the presence of non-licensed guides. —

Doug Mayer, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2023 Jamie Seguerra, a forest ranger, said visitors ask her a few dozen times a day to disclose Methuselah’s location. —

Soumya Karlamangla Adam Perez, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2022 Tall and slender, a failed actor and eventual forest ranger, a Superman curl of dark hair falling to his forehead. —

Katie Gutierrez, Town & Country, 28 July 2022 For reasons that were completely hazy to me, the redheaded guard had brought in a gun-toting forest ranger and a very eager drug dog. —

Jeff Winkler, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2020 Rhode Island’s principal forest ranger, Ben Arnold, is worried about the drought extending into the fall. —

Jennifer Mcdermott, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022 Rhode Island’s principal forest ranger, Ben Arnold, is worried about the drought extending into the fall. —

Jennifer Mcdermott, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022 See More

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Word History

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of forest ranger was in 1830

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